BAR DERMIE FROM CHANNEL 9

[videoguys]

[mike b]

I think you're wrong there, Videoguys. Dermie is still a fresh talent, who has screen presence and a very good vehicle now with "The Game". His programme is much better than "The Footy Show" nowadays. I find The Footy Show really inconsistent in its quality (I have to admit to watching most weeks) and it relies on old men with a desire to take their clothes off on national TV, smutty inuendo, pot-shots at the not-so-smart people in Footscray/Port Adelaide malls and vacant footballers like Matthew Lloyd, who could only be there for his looks. On this last point, I find that if Lloyd is on the panel and Sam finds a way of removing his clothes within the first 5 minutes of a show, then that's usually the quinella for determining it's going to be a bad one.

Dermie is also an astute commentator on footy and I would expect Channel 9 would have seen the last few years as an appropriate training for his return when they get the TV rights.

[MBaaaah]

I don't agree. I love Dermie and loved his year at Collingwood. I think Dermie was great as a panel member on the footy show- interesting and funny. Yet as the host on the game, he seems to loose his wit and I find all the sqirming he does in his chair increasingly annoying! Eddie on the other hand, is a complete natural and the footy show has some brilliantly funny moments. I hated Sam's attitude last week when he was questioning that guy from Brisbane. Sam is such a arrogant prick at times and it was badly demonstrated on Thursday night.

[videoguys]

[CQ]

dermie is supposed to commentate, the word commentating meaning to actually tell everyone whos listening to the radio just what is going on. but no, dermie raves on about shit, things that happened about 5 mins ago. its ridiculous and i want him shaw and whoever else thats on that stupid game show to f*ckin stay there.

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